Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(1971)
Overview
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.
Director
Robert Stevenson
Writers
Don DaGradi, Mary Norton, Bill Walsh, Ralph Wright, Ted Berman
Top Billed
Angela Lansbury
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Reviews
Gimly
⭐ 8/10March 18, 2018
When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of my life alone in a studio with one of those tiny little 15cm TVs you wouldn't be caught dead with nowadays, plugged in to a VCR player, and exactly three movies on VHS. One of those three movies (the best of those three) was _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_. I watched it multiple times a day, every day, for months at a time. A period piece musical that saw orphans and their witch-friend get an army of sentie… read the rest.
CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10November 26, 2022
It's very much in the vein of "Mary Poppins" (1964) this, with a very similar style of live-action and animated sequences used to tell a slightly more menacing story. When three siblings arrive in a rural English village, evacuated from London during the Blitz of WWII, they are placed with the rather eccentric and definitely unwilling "Miss Price" (Angela Lansbury). Things start to look up for all concerned though when the kids discover that she … read the rest.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$17,900,000